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Newspaper
Lordsburg Liberal
Location
Lordsburg, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1924
Page
2
Local ad text discusses subscription rates and classifieds at thirty cents per inch, with five cents extra for one-time ads. A New Mexico quote from Arthur Busbane highlights the beauty of the sky mountains and red earth as a grand American landscape.
A study on earnings assigns a cash value of 72000 to a college education and 35000 to a high school diploma. In Pandora County Montana flocks of 4000 to 5000 gulls destroyed most grasshoppers, with large groups feeding on hoppers in alfalfa fields after hay removal.
The British warship Hood, the largest vessel to pass the canal, paid 22 in tolls. Other notes report on Crusades era percussion origins, a historic dirigible attempt in 1910, misaddressed mail costs, colonial titling petitions, Libyan stamp design, a Rangoon hydraulic fire escape, and a jazz cafe manager halting a dancing couple after a fainting wife incident.
The Southern Pacific Company explains locomotive whistle signals for the curious. A four blast sequence warns of a locomotive at a public grade crossing. One short signals hand brakes needed though airbrakes reduce this need. Short blasts deter trespassers and a long followed by three shorts signals the rear flagman. Four or five medium blasts call the flagman. Four shorts request a train order. Two shorts mean thank you. One long followed by two shorts alerts for following signals. One long for approaching stations and grade crossings. Two shorts three times warns airbrakes may stick.
A Washington exhibit gathers a large collection of art objects and domestic utensils from Chaco Canyon New Mexico. The items, arranged to shed light on the life of an early metropolis in Indian America, were brought to the capital by NM Judd and others for display in Washington.
National Geographic led excavation at Pueblo Bonito revealing turquoise necklaces with 2500 beads and four pendants, jet rings with carved turquoise birds, finely woven baskets, a double basket, and a vanity like box with rouge evidence. Finds hint at long distance trade from Pacific coast to Mexico valley.
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